As you may know yesterday there was a riot in Idlewood and a protest outside city hall. The way police handled it was the most shocking of all. Not only did they start shooting at people who were driving around in idlewood. But they were also mowing down crowds and calling it "riot control". This isn't Mao Era China, you can't just mow down a crowd of protesters and get away with it.
The mayor then decided to make some bullshit speech calling it an "illegal protest", assuming LS is in US, then there is no such thing as an illegal protest. Citizens are allowed to protest for whatever the fuck they feel like. Yesterday was an irritating day for anyone who was protesting. Worst of all admins done nothing, literally let them get away with mass DM of protesters.

This'll probably get locked because I know ls-rp admins don't like it when people tell the truth and discuss real shit, but yeah

Threads like this get locked not because "admins don't like the truth", but because threads like this don't achieve anything. If you have a problem with the way things were handled take it to the leaders of PD and SD or make specific reports on the players supposedly breaking rules. Ranting on the general discussions doesn't help your case, there are already set avenues for you to go down if you feel an Official Faction member's roleplay is sub-par.

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The mayor then decided to make some bullshit speech calling it an "illegal protest", assuming LS is in US, then there is no such thing as an illegal protest. Citizens are allowed to protest for whatever the fuck they feel like.

This'll probably get locked because I know ls-rp admins don't like it when people tell the truth and discuss real shit, but yeah

Someone didn't read the part of designated free speech zones / penal code and should probably go do that now to prevent himself from looking like a noob any further.

And no, this will get locked because this is yet another topic of someone ranting against PD/SD that serves no actual purpose besides venting.

Whereas I do find the killing of unarmed civilians /ABSOLUTELY/ ridiculous. There was a point where there were more officers and deputies than protestors which was ridiculous as well. I think for every protester there were at least 3 deputies/officers. I did see what happened at this ''peaceful'' protest at the City Hall. ''/s Kill the cops'' ''/s Kill the pigs.'' ''/s Rush them and beat them to death.''

However I feel like that is no excuse to go mowing unarmed civilians down, no matter the situation. At the City Hall a lot of people got arrested, including me and which followed was a /GOD AWEFUL/even worse than sub par roleplay experience with the SD. Don't arrest people if you're just going to Robocop your way through the entire arrest. I'm trying to roleplay and my roleplay gets ignored whereas I get treated like a pile of poop IC and OOC.

Both protests and riots were one big fuckery and it was fucked up by both sites. A bunch of trollers came looking to DM and cops being cops, they provoked the rioters in such a which as it escalated quickly and they fucked the entire situation up. This should be taken ICly though rather than OOCly.

A tester is just going to lock this thread stating: ''If you have a problem with any members of the PD make up a faction report.'' Considering the fact the main people shooting were testers and admins I think you'll have a hard time getting a report up.

Protests may be legal, but those which include violence and breaking laws are not.

I did see the yesterday protest - a bunch of people fighting and trolling, most of them not even knowing the reason for the "protest" and only being there to mess around, dancing while people were being shot in their vicinity, playing silly music on, shouting and spamming trollish comments.

As far as I'm aware, there was no deathmatch involved. A lot of shots being fired doesn't mean it's automatically deathmatch. Law enforcement was only shooting towards people who were an immediate danger (wielding bats, driving through the crowd and so on). Either way, if you feel members of PD/SD broke any of the rules you should file a complaint instead of opening such topics where the discussion will most likely go sideways very soon, turning them into another "anti-PD/SD" thread and getting it locked.

"Citizens are allowed to protest for whatever the fuck they feel like" . . . you obviously haven't researched anything about legal protests and you're just spit balling quotes to stur up trouble, make a faction report or contact surreal/gus regarding it.

Admins cant jump from player to player and instantly know what they did right and wrong in these situations cause they're so hectic and there's other reports so you need to file forum reports, if you're too lazy to do that, then that just shows how much you really care about the faction standards.

I had a terrible experience in Idlewood. I didn't spend more than three minutes and got DM'd by SD cop. The problem I see more is that no admins responded to reports or intervened or even watched. It was a mess.

I had a terrible experience in Idlewood. I didn't spend more than three minutes and got DM'd by SD cop. The problem I see more is that no admins responded to reports or intervened or even watched. It was a mess.

Oh my. Fill a forum report please! This sounds serious, if a SD cop really DMed you, I hope you got SS proof and made a forum report till now from that situation.

Publicly complaining about something will not help solving it. You need to go through the right channels to report it if you wish something to be done about it. As you can see there are people who even disagree with you publicly. These riots are sometimes started off in unrealistic ways, if something like this was to happen in real life, I am sure that conventional measures would not be taken. It's the fault of the ones who started it, riots like these are opportunity for people to break rules and do as they wish.

And I am just saying, you trying to publicly shame PD or SD is not appropriate or courteous.

As you may know yesterday there was a riot in Idlewood and a protest outside city hall. The way police handled it was the most shocking of all. Not only did they start shooting at people who were driving around in idlewood. But they were also mowing down crowds and calling it "riot control". This isn't Mao Era China, you can't just mow down a crowd of protesters and get away with it.
The mayor then decided to make some bullshit speech calling it an "illegal protest", assuming LS is in US, then there is no such thing as an illegal protest. Citizens are allowed to protest for whatever the fuck they feel like. Yesterday was an irritating day for anyone who was protesting. Worst of all admins done nothing, literally let them get away with mass DM of protesters.

This'll probably get locked because I know ls-rp admins don't like it when people tell the truth and discuss real shit, but yeah

So, from the State Government's standpoint, I was the one calling it an "illegal protest" because you stepped out of the free speech zone. You're only allowed to freely protest in the SQUARE itself. Not only this, the protestors attacked police and eachother. The police were following the orders of the State Government who ordered the squashing of the illegal protest because you and your fellow protestors made it turn illegal.